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  Samsung has announced to enter into a patent cross-licensing agreement with IBM. Although specific terms and conditions are not disclosed, the agreement will allow both the companies to gain access to each other’s patent portfolio that can be used by them to develop new products. This licensing agreement will help both companies expedite innovation [...]

  Applied Materials has announced to have entered into a settlement agreement with Samsung Electronics over its misappropriation and misuse of Samsung’s confidential semiconductor information. Under the agreement, there will be a resolution of potential civil claims and litigation between both the companies and will enable Samsung to get discounts for products purchased from Applied [...]

  Samsung has entered into a licensing agreement with Intellectual Ventures. With this agreement, Samsung will get access to Intellectual Ventures’ more than 30,000 IPs spanning across various technology areas that will be critical to Samsung’s business. Consistent with Samsung’s commitment to innovation in its products and services offered to its customers worldwide, Samsung is [...]

  Last week, Samsung and Qualcomm entered into an agreement that will allow the Korean giant to use Qualcomm’s telecommunication related patents. The deal is said to be greatly favoring Samsung as they’ll use Qualcomm’s patents for a period of 15 years while paying $1.3 billion upfront plus cheap royalties. Samsung spokesperson has confirmed the [...]

  Samsung and SanDisk have announced their renewal of NAND flash memory license agreement. Though both the companies haven’t revealed the intrinsic agreement details, Samsung will have an upper hand as they’ll pay half the royalty amount that they pay currently. Samsung is the largest NAND flash memory maker and pays almost $350 million in [...]